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ArticleOncoimmunology

Evaluating natural killer cell cytotoxicity against solid tumors using a microfluidic model.

Jose M Ayuso, Regan Truttschel, Max M Gong, Mouhita Humayun, Maria Virumbrales-Munoz, Ross Vitek, Mildred Felder, Stephen D Gillies, Paul Sondel, Kari B Wisinski and 3 more

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Article in Oncoimmunology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
92citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jose M AyusoMorgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA.
Regan TruttschelDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Max M GongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Mouhita HumayunDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Maria Virumbrales-MunozMorgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA.
Ross VitekDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Mildred FelderDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Stephen D GilliesProvenance Biopharmaceuticals Corp., Carlisle, MA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2080-4220
Paul SondelDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0981-8875
Kari B WisinskiThe University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Manish PatankarDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
David J BeebeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Melissa C SkalaMorgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

UW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER SUPPORTP30CA014520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI AMY TRENTHAM-DIETZ · 1985 to 2026
$142.6M
Enhancing Antibody-directed Innate Immunity to Improve Cancer OutcomeR35CA197078 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SONDEL, PAUL M · 2015 to 2021
$6.4M
Radiation response within the tumor microenvironmentR01CA164492 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KRON, STEPHEN J. · 2011 to 2015
$4.8M
Optical imaging of pancreas cancer organoids for drug development and personalized treatmentR01CA211082 · NCI · MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, INC. · PI SKALA, MELISSA CAROLINE · 2017 to 2021
$3.5M
An automated high-throughput tissue model for screening metastatic effectorsR01CA186134 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BEEBE, DAVID J · 2015 to 2019
$3.1M
(PQ7) Quantitative in vivo optical imaging of tumor heterogeneityR01CA205101 · NCI · MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, INC. · PI SKALA, MELISSA CAROLINE · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Cellular-level Optical Metabolic Imaging to Predict Drug Response in CancerR01CA185747 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SKALA, MELISSA CAROLINE · 2014 to 2019
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014520NCI NIH HHS R01 CA164492NCI NIH HHS R01 CA185747NCI NIH HHS R01 CA186134NCI NIH HHS R01 CA205101NCI NIH HHS R01 CA211082NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapies against solid tumors face additional challenges compared with hematological cancers. In solid tumors, immune cells and antibodies need to extravasate from vasculature, find the tumor, and migrate through a dense mass of cells. These multiple steps pose significant obstacles for solid tumor immunotherapy and their study has remained difficult using classic

Indexed as

Antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicitymicrofluidicsNatural Killer cellorganotypic modelsolid tumor

Identifiers

PMID30723584
PMCPMC6350694
OpenAlexW2904634758

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